VIKING PARACHUTE TEST - AV3 (Subsonic)

Balloon launched on: 8/19/1972 at 17:45 utc
Launch site: Roswell Industrial Air Center, New Mexico, US  
Balloon launched by: Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Tow 158.000 cuft (0.5 Mil) Main: 4.166.000 (0.33 Mil.)
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): ??/??/1972
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 5 h
Payload weight: 3425 lbs

• Balloon launched decelerator test program: Post-flight test report, BLDT vehicle AV-3, Viking 1975 project Martin Marietta Corp.; Denver, CO, United States (1973)
• Balloon launched decelerator test program: Post-test test report NASA Technical Report (1972)
• Balloon launched Viking decelerator test program Martin Marietta Corp.; Denver, CO, United States (1973)
• Flight tests of Viking parachute system in three Mach number regimes. 1: Vehicle description, test operations, and performance NASA Technical Report (1974)
• Flight tests of Viking parachute system in three Mach number regimes. 2: Parachute test results NASA Technical Report (1974)
• Balloon Flight Record Nº 44, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Summer 1972 - StratoCat's private collection
• Postflight simulation of parachute deployment dynamics of Viking qualification flight tests NASA Technical Note Nº D-7415 (1973)